Karen Thompson Walker Quotes

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• Nothing has happened to me out of the closet that was anywhere near as dangerous as being closeted.
• Our fears are an amazing gift of the imagination ... a way of glimpsing what might be the future when there's still time to influence…
• But the past is long, and the future is short.
• I've become a collector of stories about unlikely returns: the sudden reappearance of the long-lost son, the father found, the lovers reunited after forty years.…
• Sometimes death is proof of life. Sometimes decay points out a certain verve.
• I kept quiet, but the knowledge gathered like a storm. I could see the future: My father wasn't coming back. And this one fact seemed…
• I guess it never is what you worry over that comes to pass in the end. The real catastrophes are always different—unimagined, unprepared for, unknown.
• Fear is ... a kind of unintentional storytelling that we are all born knowing how to do.
• Just like all great stories, our fears focus our attention on a question that is as important in life as it is in literature: What…
• How much sweeter life would be if it all happened in reverse, if, after decades of disappointments, you finally arrived at an age when you…
• Some say that love is the sweetest feeling, the purest form of joy, but that isn't right. It's not love--it's relief.
• Sometimes the saddest stories take the fewest words.
• Even beauty, in abundance, turns creepy.
• Who knows how fast a second-guess can travel? Who has ever measured the exact speed of regret?
• This was middle school, the age of miracles, the time when kids shot up three inches over the summer, when breasts bloomed from nothing, when…
• To some degree we all live with uncertainty. We have no control over the future. Yet we carry on, we persevere, because, I guess, it's…
• I can write all the way through the morning, when my mind is clear, and there are no distractions.
• I feel like writing a book there's always a version in your head that's an amazing version, but then you write the version that you…
• I first started writing fiction in college because I was attracted to beautiful sentences. I loved to read them. I wanted to write them.
• I'm an only child, and I think one of the sweet things about that is that my parents are really interested in every aspect of…

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